Less than three months before they play Allentown Fair, hot country duo Sugarland will perform live on the CMT Music Awards, the awards just announced.

Sugarland

Sugarland is among the first five performers identified for the awards broadcast, which will air at 8 p.m. June 8 on the Country Music Television channel.

Other announced performers are Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum, who both played the fair last year, Jason Aldean and Rascal Flatts.

This is the 10th anniversary of country music’s first fan-voted awards show.

Final nominees for the awards were announced last week and fans can vote online at www.CMT.com through June 7 to determine the winners.

Sugarland got two nominations: Video of the Year and Duo Video of the Year. Urban also was nominated two. Berks County native Taylor Swift has three, tying her for second most with Lady Antebellum and others. Aldean leads all artists, with four nominations.

Speaking of Sugarland, Ticketmaster now indicates that show has just over 900 tickets left for the show at $39 for general admission grandstand seats and $59 for assigned grandstand seats.

JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.